Jun Nishida

An Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park, Department of Computer Science, Jun leads the Embodied Dynamics Laboratory. Previously Jun was a postdoctoral fellow at Human Computer Integration Lab (Prof. Pedro Lopes) at the University of Chicago. He received a Ph.D. in Human Informatics at the University of Tsukuba, Japan in 2019.

He is interested in exploring interaction techniques where people can communicate their embodied experiences to support each other in the fields of rehabilitation, education, and design. To this end, he designs wearable interfaces that share one’s embodied experiences across people by means of electrical muscle stimulation, exoskeletons, virtual/augmented reality systems, along with psychological knowledge. June has received more than 40 awards including ACM UIST Best Paper Award, Microsoft Research Asia Fellowship Award, and Forbes 30 Under 30.